Opossums and possums are two different animals. In North and South America, you will come across opossums — nocturnal marsupials that are typically gray. The Virginia opossum is the only kind of ...

Native to Australia, southern hairy-nosed wombats are nocturnal marsupials who spend most of the day in complex underground ...

Wombats are a solitary and pudgy nocturnal marsupial. They live in Australia's grasslands and eucalyptus forests in burrows and tunnels that they dig with their claws. Little blue penguins are ...

But these clever nocturnal critters have a lot going for them. They have a natural tolerance for snake venom and they eat parasitic ticks and garden pests. Just like their marsupial relatives ...

As soon as its meal was munched, the possum climbed up to hide in the rafters. This nocturnal marsupial, native to Australia, is widespread and locally abundant. Its long, sharp claws are made for ...

Experts say that humans are drawn to creatures with big soulful eyes and furry softness and that they speak to our nurturing ...

Marsupials have lower metabolic rates and ... tarsiers lack a tapetum lucidum—the reflective layer in the eyes of nocturnal animals. The tapetum lucidum is critical to vision in low light ...

In a big scientific leap, researchers have successfully sequenced RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger specimen that is over a ...